A nice – but fairly cold – weekend is followed by a multi-day noreaster.
Low temperatures will once again remain in the single digit in South East New England this morning, making it the first single-digit days since 30 January and 31 January 2019.
But the wind is at least relaxed as we warm up to nearly 20 degrees in southern New England this afternoon.
There is a lot of sunshine except in the northern mountains, where we have clouds and flags, and on the outer Cape cod also with clouds and flags.
High pressure is moving right over us tonight, causing a large, beautiful, bright moon and the planets and stars should look dazzling with a clean dry air mass.
Again, you want to work together when you go hiking outdoors, with the temperature dropping to the single digit south and far below zero north until Sunday morning.
Sunday, however, looks good, with plenty of sunshine and light winds. High temperatures will come after the teens north and 20s south with increasing clouds in the afternoon.
The storm system that dropped 8 meters of snow on Mammoth Mountain in California is crossing the country and will be standing in front of us on Monday morning.
At that time, it would snow heavily from Philadelphia to New York City, with a wall of moderate to heavy snow illuminating from south to north in southern New England.
In the first few hours, we probably got a few inches of snow before heading for rain along the coast near Cape Cod.
In most of central and southern New England it looks like a band of eight to ten hours of heavy snow later Monday to early Tuesday, so it’s probably a snowfall of 8-10 inches – for an early raming
Low pressure will move from Pennsylvania and then develop again south of Long Island and follow slowly to near Nantucket.
A lower level on the upper level will house overhead stable with several low pressure systems that cable from south to north through the Gulf of Maine. That means a lot of snow, with rain on the coast Tuesday and into the evening.
Coastal winds from the east and northeast will storm more than 50 miles per hour Monday night and first Tuesday. There is a chance of a lighter wind from south Boston to Cape Cod Tuesday, with temperatures jumping to nearly 40 degrees and snow changing to drizzle.
Otherwise, further inland, snowstorms will continue Tuesday, with the largest accumulation at the moment in the mountains of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
There may be a hole in the middle of the precipitation amounts, with smaller amounts in southern Vermont, western Massachusetts and western New Hampshire. But for much of New England, we can have a snowfall of 10 to 20 centimeters – it stays snowing.
Winds will return from the north on Tuesday night, with perhaps icy conditions returning to the southern and eastern coastline. Wednesday is probably a cold gray day before a bit of sunshine Thursday. Thursday night a warm front brings a mixture of rain and snow, followed by a big warm-up late in the week with heavy rain showers possible after next weekend.
This is a very busy First Alert forecast of ten days.